What does RV stand for?

Retrovirus

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Samples in periodicals archive:

An obscure retrovirus shows up in two-thirds of people diagnosed with the condition and can infect human immune cells, scientists report online October 8 in Science.

Pathogen fingered as a potential culprit in chronic fatigue syndrome: ...

WHAT happens, now that 67 per cent of a study group of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) sufferers have been found to have the highly contagious retrovirus XMRV in their blood (Mail)?

ME sufferers don't deserve this treatment; LETTERS

Studying this syndrome in collaboration with scientists from the National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic, the instituteÕs researchers discovered that a large majority of people diagnosed with that and similar diseases carry a recently discovered retrovirus, called XMRV, in their blood.

StateÕs new reputation

This suggests that several million Americans may be infected with a retrovirus of as-yet-unknown pathogenic potential," the researchers concluded.

Study links virus to chronic fatigue syndrome

sm], a retrovirus very similar to HIV-2, but despite high levels of virus in the blood they generally do not develop the clinical immunodeficiency or systemic immune activation that characterise HIV-1 infection in humans: in effect, they appear to be naturally 'tolerant' to SIV.

Divergent TLR7 and TLR9 signaling and type I interferon production ...

Their topics include possible retrovirus vectors, adeno and adeno-associated virus vectors, gene therapy for acute renal failure due to ischemia-reperfusion issues and acute injuries, and treatment for chronically deteriorating renal function and renal fibrosis, and treatment for acute and chronic allograft rejection.

Gene therapy for renal diseases and transplantation

Three years after a retrovirus to cure cancer becomes airborne, infecting the six billion people on Earth and producing rabies-like symptoms in almost every patient, military vir-ologist Robert Neville (Smith) - one of the lucky few with natural immunity to the bug - continues his tireless work to engineer a cure.

DVDs: The last man left standing

Francis Lawrence's film opens in 2009 with Dr Alice Crippen (an uncredited Emma Thompson) announcing a medical breakthrough: the creation of a retrovirus to cure cancer.

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